Test 10 · Ruth, and David and Goliath

A judge asks: «Was Ruth's choice only loyalty, or also courage?»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: judge · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: choice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 8 «Ruth, and David and Goliath» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 choice	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 choice	punct
6	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 choice	cop
7	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 choice	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Ruth	case
9	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	ccomp
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 loyalty	advmod
11	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choice	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 courage	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 courage	cc
14	also	also	ADV	_	15 courage	advmod
15	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choice	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a judge						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past		Ruth's choice or courage				loyalty nmod	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Both: she left her own land and people for a hard, unknown life

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 left	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 land	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 land	amod
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 people	cc
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 land	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	15 life	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 life	det
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 life	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hard	punct
14	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 life	amod
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Both	her own land and people				for a hard unknown life	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Theme for life=Recipient

Option 2

Neither, she was told to go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		she				neither property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Only loyalty, it cost her nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 loyalty	advmod
2	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cost	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 loyalty	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cost	nsubj
5	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cost	iobj
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 cost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	past	loyalty	nothing	her = she				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary nothing=Value

Option 4

Only courage, she did not love Naomi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 courage	advmod
2	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 love	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 love	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 love	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 love	advmod
7	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 courage	parataxis
8	Naomi	Naomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not love	past · do-support	she	Naomi					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer naomi=Stimulus

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